I haven't had my own self-awareness raised by poetry. What makes you think that it's a good tool for that purpose?
Because you choose words to describe something, and there is at least one reason behind each choice. And when there are two or more reasons, like rhyme or meter, it is trivially easy to see - and oddly hard to break from.
Similarly, when you 'agree' with some piece, you agree for a reason.
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